Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE.
Or. Talmage Holds 1t to Be a Christian
Duty TO insure
As q Means Of Providing for the Family
Against Want.
WORD 10 Eaoao Who frsGre l,lveS ana
Property
And to Those VITO Need Insurance. Against
Eternal Misery,

THE TRUST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
The HAMPToNs, August z: The Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage's sermon for to-
day was on the important subject OF
..Life and Fire Insurance: the Chris
tan Principles Involved" His text
was:
'Let him appoint officers over the land,
and take u the fifth part Of the land OF
Egypt In the seven plenteous ~years."-Gene-
els xii, v. 81.
These were the words of Joseph, the
president of the first life insurance
company that the world ever saw.
Pharaoh had a dream that distracted
him. He thought he stood on the
banks of the river Nile, and saw coming
ap out of the riVer, seven fat, sleek,
glossy COWS, and they began to browse
in the thick grass. Nothing frightful
about that. But after them, coming
out of the same river, he saw seven
cows that were gaunt and starved, and
the worst looking COWS that had ever
been seen in the land, and in the IA
rocity of hur ger they devoured their
seven fat predecessors. Pharaoh, the
king, sent for Joseph to decipher these
midnight hieroglyphics. Joseph made
short work of it, and minated the
seven fat COWS that came out of the
river arc seven years with plenty to
eat, the seven emaciated cows that
followed them, are seven years with
nothing TO eat. ''Now," said Joseph,
'.let us take one-fifth of the corn crop
of the seven prosperous years, and
keep it as q provision for the sever
years in which there shall be no corr
crop" The king took the counsel ant
appointed
JOSEPH,
oecuuse of his integrity and public
spiritedness as the president OF the un
dertaking. The farmers paid one
fifth of their income as a premium. Ii
all the towns and cities Of the Lane
there were branch houses. This grea
egyptian life insurance company ha'
millions of dollars as assets. Afte'
awhile the dark days came and thu
whole nation would have starved i
it had not been for the provision the.
had made for the future. But nov
these suffering families had nothing t
do but 90 up and collect the amount o
their life policies. The Bible puts
in one short phrase: sin all the lane
of Egypt there was bread" sa,
this was the first lite insurance CON
pany. 1t was divinely organized. |
had in it all the advantages of tn
''whole life plan, ''of the ''tontine plan,
of the reserved endowment plan,
and all other good plans. W. are toll
that Rev. DR.. Anhate, of Lincolnshire
England. originated the first life insur
ance company in 1893. No! 1t is a
old as the corn cribs of Egypt; the Coz
Himself was the author and originator
If that were not so i would not TAX
your time and mine in Sabbath discus
sion of this subject. feel it is
theme vital, religious and of intnit'
import, the morals of life and fire in
About ten or twelve years ago there
was a great panic in life INSURANCE,
which did good. Under the storm the
untrustworthy and bogus institutions
were scattered, while the genuine wer,
tested and firmly established; anc
where does the
LIFE INSURANCE
institution stand to-dayp What amount
of comfort, of education, of moral and
spiritual advantage is represented il
the simple statistic that in this country
the life insurance companies in one
year paid $1,000, 900 to the families o.
the bereft; and in five years they paic
$500, 000, 900 to the families of the be
reft; and are promising to pay-ant
hold themselves in readiness to pay
$4,000, 900, 900 to the families of the
bereftp
But what does the Bible say in re
gard to this subject If the Bible
favors Il 9 institution, i will favor il
IL the Bible denounces it, l will de.
nounce it. In addition to the forecast
Of Joseph in the tex ! call to your at
tcntion Paul's comparison. Here il
one man who, through neglect. fails tn
support his family while ne lives, or
after he dies. Here is another man.
who abhors the Scriptures. and rejects
God. Which of those men are the
worsep Well, you say. the latter.
Paul says the former. Paul says tina,
a man who neglects to care for his
horyohold lie ,nnra nhpnxirna than a